Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-05-07

'shmcnts-ruined by their lack O
compensation. In low many pros
Jerous siOres it has been for the las
wenty years that boys we're given jus
,nough money to learn them how t.
'teal! Some we're seized upon by tn,
'olice. The vast majority Of instance,
~ore not known. The head of tn
irm asked: Where is George nowp'
90. he isn't here any more" A lad
might better starve to death on q
blasted heath than take one cent from
mis- employer. Woe be to that en-
uloyer who unnecessarily puts a temp.
tatlon in a boys way. There hav'
been great establishment. in these
cities building marble palaces. Their
owners diving worth millions and mill
ions and millions, who made a vast
rou OF their estate out Of the blood
and muscle and nerve of
HALF-PAID CLERKS.
Such men as-well, | will not mention
any name, but | mean men who hav,
gathered up vast estates at the expense
of the people who we're ground under
their heel. 90" say such merchants,
''if you don't like it here. then 90 and
get a better place. As much as to
say: "l've got you in my grip, and |
mean to hold you; you can't get any
other place" O. what = contrast we
see between such men and those Chris
,ian merchants of Brooklyn and New
York who to-day are sympathetic with
their clerks-when the, gay the salary.
acting in this way: This salary that
| give you is not all my interest in you.
You are an immortal man; you are an
immortal woman; | am interested in
your present and your everlasting
welfare; l want you to understand
that, if l am a little higher up
in this store, | am beside you in Chris
tan sympathy" Go back forty years.
TO Arthur Tappen's store in New York
"A man whose worst enemies w
questioned his hone-ty. Every morn
ing he brought all the clerks, and the
accountants, and the waighers into a
room for devotion. They sang; they
prayed; they eXhortcd. On Monday
morning the clerks we're asked where
they had attended church on the prev
ious day, and what the were
about. 1t must have sounded strange.
that voice of praise along the streets
where the devotees of mamnon were
counting their golden eagles, You
say Arthur Tappen failed. Yes, he
NNas nnG,rfl1Aafs lila rrnnf n,nn
good men; bit | understand he met all
his obligations before he lift this world.
and l know that he uied in the
PEAcE OF THE GOSPEL,
and that he IS before the
throne of God to-day-forcver blessed.
II hat be failing. | wish
that you might all fail. There are a
great many young men in this city
yes. in this housewife want a word
of encouragement, Christian encour-
agement. One smile Of good cheer
would be worth more to them to-mor-
row morning in their places of business
than a pr, sent Of fifty thousand dollars
ten years hence. q, | remember the
apprehension and the tremor of enter.
ing profession. | remember very
we'll the man who greeted me in the
ecclesiastical court with the tip ends Of
the long fingers of the left hand; and ]
remember the other man who took my
hand in both OF his, and sad: "GCd
bless you, my brother; you have en-
tered n gi' rinus profession, be faithful
to God and He w,ll see YOU through
Why, | feel this minute the
THRILL OF THAT HAND-sHAKING,
though the mar who gave me the
Chri>tian grip has been in heaven
twenty-five years. There are Old men
to-day who can look back to forty
years ago. when some one sald n kind
word to them. Now, old men, pay back
VIII It you got then. 1t Is = great art
for old men to be aole to encourage the
young. There are many young peopl.
in our cities who have come from in.
land counties Of our own state-from
the granite hills of the north, from the
savannas Of the south, from the prai.
ries OF the west. They are here to
get their fortune. They are in board
ing houses where everybody seems to
be thinking of himself. They want
compani"nship. and they want
CHRISTIAN ENCOURAGEMENT.
Give it to them. My word is to all
clerks in this house: Be mightier than
your temptations. A Sandwich Islander
used to think when h. slew an enemy,
all the strength Of that enemy came
into his right arm. And | have to
tell YOU that every misfortune you con-
qucr is so much add d to your moral
power. With omnipotence for a lever.
and the throne of God for a fulcrum.
YOU can move earth and heaven.
While there are other young men
putting the cup Of sin to tn, ir lips,
stoop down and drink out of the foun-
tain Of God, and you will rise up
strong to thresh the mountains. The
ancientS used to think that pearls were
fallen rain drops, which. touching the
surface Of the sea. hardened into % ms,
then dropped to the bottom. have to
tell yon to-day, that storms IF trial
have sho~ered imperisha5lc pearl into
many n Young mans lap. o. young